Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year-old bones were displaced to make room for the victims. Even here the packs of dogs roamed about; if they found a grave that was not deep enough, they would haul out bodies and devour them. "I thought I had seen everything," said Subedar A.B. Bhosale, a soldier in the Indian army, "but this is worse than...
...sometimes, jokes played in the name of the Secret Santa game can ruin the fun. This year, South House resident Grant N. Colfax '87 was told by what he termed "a satanic Secret Santa" to take the shuttlebus to Soldier's Field Park and wait for further instructions...
...first day on the witness stand, General William C. Westmoreland described how he made frequent visits to his field commanders in Viet Nam to hear their briefings and get firsthand impressions. He used the word briefings as an old soldier would, perhaps not even aware of its connection to his $120 million libel suit against CBS. For briefings are also what journalism is about?gathering facts, asking questions and then briefing a public that hasn't the time or the patience to hear...
...major reason: a Polish government suggestion that it would be inappropriate for Genscher to visit the grave of Father Jerzy Popieluszko, the Solidarity supporter who was murdered last month. In addition, the Warsaw regime vetoed Genscher's request to lay a wreath at the grave of a German soldier killed in World War II and refused to grant a visa for the visit to the correspondent of Bonn's conservative daily Die Welt...
...haven from gunfire, if not from violence, since the 1953 Korean armistice. But that record was shattered last week by a shootout over a Soviet defector in the Joint Security Area. An American G.I., Michael Burgoyne, 20, of Portland, Mich., was wounded in the melee. A South Korean soldier and as many as three North Koreans were killed...